Recital series features Beethoven sonatas for cello and piano
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Fredonia School of Music faculty members Sean Duggan on piano and Natasha Farny on cello will present a two-night recital series featuring the complete Beethoven sonatas for cello and piano. The concerts will be held from 8 to 10 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 9 and Saturday, Feb. 10 in Juliet J. Rosch Recital Hall in Mason Hall on the Fredonia campus. The concerts are free and open to the public.
Pianist Father Sean Brett Duggan, O.S.B., a practicing Benedictine monk, has been a Fredonia School of Music faculty member since 2005. Throughout his career as a pianist, Duggan has appeared with numerous orchestras, including the Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra, the New Orleans Philharmonic and the American Chamber Orchestra.
He has been featured as a guest soloist at the piano and chamber music festival in La Gesse, France; the Villa Chopin near Malaga, Spain; and the Taubman Institute of Piano in Williamstown, Mass., and Lecce, Italy.
Duggan received a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance at Loyola University in New Orleans and a Master of Fine Arts degree at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Cellist Natasha Farny also joined the Fredonia School of Music faculty in 2005. She has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Greeley Symphony Orchestra, the Juilliard Symphony Orchestra and New Juilliard Ensemble, and the Western New York Chamber Orchestra.
She has participated in music festivals around the world, as well, including the International Musicians Seminar in England, The Banff Summer Master Classes, the Bay View Music Festival, the Artur Balsam Chamber Music Festival, the Kronberg Cello Festival, the Schleswig Holstein Festival Master Classes, and the Leipzig Internationales Kammermusikfestival.
After pursuing undergraduate studies at the Curtis Institute of Music and Yale University, Farny earned a master of music degree at the Eastman School of Music and a doctorate of musical arts degree at the Juilliard School.
